Pinay Doctor's Open Letter to Pres. Duterte for Providing Free Hospitalization for all Filpinos Went Viral Online

A veteran Pinay doctor and considered as one of the most active supporter of Pres. Rody Duterte on social media, Dra. Lorraine Marie T. Badoy shares her excitement on social media as he wrote an Open Letter being grateful to the President for providing Free Hospitalization for all Filipinos nationwide went viral online.

Lorraine Marie T. Badoy shared how every Filipino patients experienced the agony of getting sick and the constant problems of finding funds for their hospitalization.

The Pinay doctor is so grateful with the latest developments under the Duterte administration and in just 6th monthin office, the announcement is made: Hospitalization will be Free-and Medicines Too!--for poor Filipinos.

Duterte administration's decision to provide free hospitalization and free medicines for all will surely benefits the masses and there will be no Filipino who will be turned away from government hospitals because they do not have the money. Let the national government take care of that as stated by CabSec Ubial.

Here's the Complete Statement of Lorraine Marie T. Badoy:

One of the worst things about being a doctor is this: you sit your
patient down, examine her and you notice her threadbare clothes, shoes
that are worn and cracked, the sad, anxious look. Smell the sour, sweaty
smell of someone who took public transport to get to you and walked
some distance under the heat of the sun.

And you can tell going
to a doctor is not something she does on a regular basis. Just something
she does when something really really realllllly hurts—incapacitating,
blinding pain not the run-of-the-mill pain that rich folks have checked
just because it’s annoying. They come to you when some
body part is bleeding, oozing with some fluid, bent at a real weird
angle and has incapacitated her in some real and significant,
hard-to-ignore way---usually when it gets in the way of their earning a
living. (But if it’s just their sleep that’s disturbed or it it’s just
them puking their brains out, they bear it. Bear it. Bear it.)
And they come to you after they’ve exhausted all means--praying to all
the saints and to God and to their guardian angels, tried the herbs in
Quiapo Church, gone to the village quack who adds more injury on top of
the original injury and has thus, made her medical condition even more
challenging. And finally, you find out what it is that ails her
and you tell her she needs to be confined and you write out a
prescription of life saving medication for her.

And this is
where you lose her---the connection you carefully built, shattered
because she has tuned you out. She no longer hears you.

Once you
start talking about hospitalization, medicines, tests, she is out that
door even as she continues to be physically present—but this time, with a
distant look in her eyes.

And that faraway look is because she
has retreated into that part of her that knows the road ahead for her
will be filled with suffering or that she will die soon. Because there
is no money for anything extra for the poor. How can there be when they
scrounge around for even just where to get their next meal?

They
lead such tight, tight lives that cannot tolerate a setback—no matter
how minor. Something that might set us back for a few weeks, can mean
something they can never climb out of.

And this is how poverty
becomes the vicious cycle that traps them for generations—where the only
thing they can give their children, besides the life of strife and
grief they grew up in as children, is the continuation of this life of
endless strife and grief well into their adulthood and until they
finally leave this earth—never knowing the joys, the delights we, who
are better-situated enjoy. Travel, education, books, good health, good
food, the ability to lead the lives of our choosing—empowered,
empowering.

And this is how it’s been with us since time immemorial.

And health--like transportation, like education, like shelter, like
employment opportunities, etc-- is a social justice issue MORE THAN
ANYTHING—and where the lack of it, a most effective weapon that makes
sure the poor stay poor for all time.

No Filipino will be turned away from government hospitals because they
do not have the money. NONE. NO ONE. And they can, as CabSec Ubial says,
“Leave hospitals with no billings balance.” Let the government take
care of that.

Let. The. Government. Take. Care. Of. THAT.

And the Filipino who has, all his life, known nothing but grief from a
thieving, inept, indifferent government—deaf to the cries of its
people—well, this Filipino is blinking his eyes in disbelief. “Can you again that please?” “Slowly by slowly now.”

For the first time in DOH’s history, the department is in good
financial standing after the Budget Dept paid the arrears of 32 billion
from the 42 billion deficits of Philhealth.

And this got done because the President wanted this done. Willed it to be done.

And this is what he told the Sec. “Just take care of the poor, I’ll take care where to find the money.” Oh Digongmylabs, I don’t think I can possibly love you any more than I do now.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

My heaped up heart thanks you.

I see my country, climbing out of the dark hole and getting out of the
chains that’s held her for decades now.. little at a time..

I know it’s just December 19. And I know Dec 25 is when we’re supposed to celebrate Christmas. But if the message of Christmas is AUDACIOUS HOPE, then yes, Christmas came early in 2016. MALIGAYANG PASKO, MGA KABABAYAN KO!

Source: Lorraine Marie T. Badoy

Pinay Doctor's Open Letter to Pres. Duterte for Providing Free Hospitalization for all Filpinos Went Viral Online
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